Happy Holidays!

Market cancelled tomorrow

Friends, I am so sorry but The Peas and Pods Christmas Market is cancelled tomorrow. There is just too much snow :(

I am really disappointed as I have been painting my Crimbo Critters for the last few weeks and they were looking forward to newly adopted homes.

I'll take some more photos of them tomorrow and post them up for you. I painted 25 originals in all, in acrylic and watercolour, they are all framed.

Peas and Pods Market Tomorrow!

I have been painting and framing my 'Little Critters' for the Peas and Pods Market tomorrow.

But the snow is coming down fast and heavy in Skerries for the first time in years. I really hope that I can make it in tomorrow! AAAAAGHHHH!

Crimbo Critters!

I've been up late-night painting little critters; dragonflies and elves and their ilk, they'll be framed up for the Peas and Pods Family Market next week. Looking something like this...

If you want to buy some of these little critters do come along next Wednesday, it will be a cosy indoor mulled wine affair to get you in the Christmas mood. It's on at the Dublin Food Co-op, Newmarket, Dublin 8 from 1-8pm.

I'll be signing books and available for orders of Take-away Doodles too!

Trócaire Christmas Cards

I am feeling so Christmassy today. It's been a weekend of snowy fun.

Starting on Friday night, I really loved the Toyshow. Thought it was the best one yet. Ryan Tubridy was a natural with the kids and full of quirky comments to keep the adults smiling too.

In fact it was so wonderful it made snow :)

My Trócaire Christmas cards are now available in all Trócaire stores: Maynooth, Cork and Belfast. Paddy in Skerries Bookstore will also be stocking them too!

If you would like to order the cards for your company please contact Trócaire directly on 1850 408 408

Can you spot a hidden character in this card?

Time bending and Trocaire Christmas Cards

Trocaire Christmas Cards will be available in Skerries Book Store from this week. There are 4 designs in all. They are also available from the Trocaire shop Tel: +353 1 6293333 . I really enjoyed painting these cards in the middle of summer, it seems so long ago now!

I was chatting to my eight year old about this flexible nature of time and the way that it speeds up over the weekend. You know, Saturday seems like a long leisurely day where you fit loads in.

My Saturday involved getting up early, driving to Dublin, interview on FM4, getting new winter boots, coffee and chats with my friend Dermot at his wonderful gallery, buying presents for 2 birthdays, driving home, going to first birthday, painting kids faces as vampires, spotty dogs, going to second party, going to dinner in friends house with the kids... just your typical Saturday. But then on Sunday for some reason, time is speeded up. So one minute its breakfast time, next minute it's bedtime! Very little achieved and it went so quickly!

Is there a theory for this or is it just our minds time bending? Or does time go slower when you have a jammed packed day!

Christmas Cards for Temple Street Children's University Hospital

This year I have designed the Christmas Cards along with Steve Simpson and Adrienne Geoghegan for Temple Street Children's Hospital in aid of much needed funds.
They are available online here and soon will be in will also be available from McCabes Pharmacies and Woodies stores.

News.

Trócaire Cards are now up on their website and here too if you want to place an order before Christmas.
Also if you missed Robert Dunbar's Christmas roundup in the Irish Times it can be found here. He features PJ Lynch's The Gift of the Magi and my Cinderella.

Trócaire Christmas Cards

I was delighted to be asked to design and illustrate the Trocaire Christmas Cards this year.
The cards are available in the Trocaire stores in Maynooth, Co. Kildare, 12 Cathedral Street, Dublin 1,
9 Cook Street, Cork and 50 King Street, Belfast.
Paddy in Skerries Bookstore will also be stocking them too!
If you would like to order the cards for your company please contact Trócaire directly on 1850 408 408